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Institute for the Humanities, hub of humanities scholarship at U of Illinois at Chicago. Tweets by the Institute staff. Retweets are not our opinions.

 1007 W Harrison S, Chicago, IL
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Joined February 2015
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Join us on Zoom on February 2, 2024 for a thrilling conversation about how this collective has focused on deconstructing the processes of internal and external colonization in Nepali history. Register here: uic.zoom.us/meeting/register…
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Lavender text on off-white background reads: "Atmospheres of Violence: Structuring Antagonism and the Trans/Queer Ungovernable by Eric A. Stanley, Associate Professor and Vice Chair for Pedagogy, Gender & Women's Studies at UC Berkeley. Date: Monday, November 6th. Time: 4:00PM-5:30PM. Location: UIC Institute for Humanities. Behavioral Sciences Building (BSB). 1007 West Harrison Street, Suite 153, Chicago, IL 60607." Black text reads "Cosponsored by the UIC Institute for the Humanities Queer and Trans Studies Working Group and the Department of Criminology, Law and Justice" at the top. There is a bio of Eric Stanley at the bottom in black text and a photo them center right on the page. A QR code for event registration is in the center of the image.

ALT Lavender text on off-white background reads: "Atmospheres of Violence: Structuring Antagonism and the Trans/Queer Ungovernable by Eric A. Stanley, Associate Professor and Vice Chair for Pedagogy, Gender & Women's Studies at UC Berkeley. Date: Monday, November 6th. Time: 4:00PM-5:30PM. Location: UIC Institute for Humanities. Behavioral Sciences Building (BSB). 1007 West Harrison Street, Suite 153, Chicago, IL 60607." Black text reads "Cosponsored by the UIC Institute for the Humanities Queer and Trans Studies Working Group and the Department of Criminology, Law and Justice" at the top. There is a bio of Eric Stanley at the bottom in black text and a photo them center right on the page. A QR code for event registration is in the center of the image.

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Detailed schedule available at: german.uic.edu/events/nordsu… Intercultural and postcolonial approaches to literature have opened up interstitial and transitional discursive spaces that can deprivilege Eurocentric ways of reading via cultural transfers that generate an intercultural-
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-semiotics. Intercultural and postcolonial readings take impulses from several works of German and cultural Studies scholars, who have urged a critical re-examination of the history of European scholarship as one conditioned by ideology. Seen from this perspective, re-readings-
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-and revisions of the cultural canon ought to aim both to construct “postcolonial alterities” and to deconstruct dichotomies endemic to “the colonial imaginary” (Uerlings).
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Dr. Azadeh Safaeian is a Bridge to Faculty Scholar in the Disability & Human Development department. Her work focuses on disability and trauma studies, care studies, postcolonial environmental humanities, animal studies, and film theory. Her current book project attends to the-
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discursive and non-discursive representations of somatic pain and psychological trauma in the literatures and cinemas of minority groups in the context of the Middle East. For the meeting, Azadeh will be workshopping an article draft entitled: "She Bursts into Languages: Trauma-
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and Multilingualism in One Woman’s War: Da (Mother).” Join us here: uic.zoom.us/j/87329552896?pw…
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We had a full house yesterday for our Faculty Fellow lecture with Joaquin Chavez! #UIC #uicinstituteforthehumanities #HumanitiesInstitute #Humanities #humanitiesresearch
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At Home with the Collective: A Summit on Communal Housing October 19-20, 2023 100 Architecture + Design Studios 845 W. Harrison St Register at arch.uic.edu/events/home-col…. #architecture #Chicago #humanities #UIC
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Fellows Lecture: Joaquín M. Chávez, History "Avant-Garde Diplomacy and Cold War Politics in Latin America: The Joint French-Mexican Declaration on El Salvador" October 12, 2023 4:00 PM - 6:00 PM Institute for the Humanities
"UIC Institute for the Humanities Faculty Fellow Lecture Series Presents: Avant-Garde Diplomacy and Cold War Politics in Latin America: The Joint French-Mexican Declaration on El Salvador with Joaquín M. Chávez. Department of History. Thu 10/12/23. 4-6PM. Behavioral Sciences Building. 1007 W. Harrison St. Suite 153."

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SEENEXT Talk: Vladimir Putin’s Aggression and Suicide: The Cultural-Interactionist Perspective October 13, 2023 3:00 PM - 5:30 PM The Institute
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Sink or Swim. Humanities and Arts in the Anthropocene October 11, 2023 2:00 PM - 6:00 PM Institute Part of Polish Soundtrack. The Last Chance festival. Full programme here: centrumcentrum.xyz/polishsou…. #humanities #UIC #Polish #Chicago
Very colorful maplike background on which is written the text "Polish Soundtrack. The Last Chance. Humanities and Arts in the Anthropocene. Anthropocene Lab. Urban Rivers. Freshwater Lab. Deep Time Chicago. Centrumcentrum. Walks on the Wild Side. 'Sink or Swim' Conference. Boring Drug Concert. Film Screenings. Wild Weeds Picnic. DJ Set by Vesolo. At UIC, By Lake Michigan & Wild Mile Urban Rivers. October 10-14." There is a QR code for the full programme. Logos galore.

ALT Very colorful maplike background on which is written the text "Polish Soundtrack. The Last Chance. Humanities and Arts in the Anthropocene. Anthropocene Lab. Urban Rivers. Freshwater Lab. Deep Time Chicago. Centrumcentrum. Walks on the Wild Side. 'Sink or Swim' Conference. Boring Drug Concert. Film Screenings. Wild Weeds Picnic. DJ Set by Vesolo. At UIC, By Lake Michigan & Wild Mile Urban Rivers. October 10-14." There is a QR code for the full programme. Logos galore.

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Fellows Lecture: Nasser Mufti, English "Britain's Nineteenth Century, 1963-4" October 4, 2023 4:00 PM - 6:00 PM UIC Institute for the Humanities
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Today at Hull House!!!
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ALT Black background with text "Humanizing Critical Race Presents...The Case for Critical Race Feminism. Keynote Speaker: Dr. Adrien Wing, Associate Dean for International and Comparative Law Programs, University of Iowa. Join Us! @ Jane Addams-Hull House. Thurs., September 28, 2023. 5-7 PM. " UIC and Mellon Foundation Logos on the top right.

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Pssst! The Institute is hiring a graduate research assistant for the Spring 2024 semester, and the window to apply is closing soon! Apply at #UICHandshake by this Sunday, October 1. Questions? Email [email protected].
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"Take It As a Fairy Tale": Varlam Shalamov as a Storyteller September 27, 2023 4 PM - 6 PM 1750 University Hall Prof Emily Van Buskirk considers Varlam Shalamov as a storyteller on the model of Benjamin’s famous 1936 essay.
Image includes photo of Varlam Shalamov's wizenend face and this event information text "SEENEXT Presents: 'Take it as a Fairy Tale:' Varlam Shalamov as a Storyteller. Wed 9/27/23 . 4-6PM. University Hall, Room 1750. 601 South Morgan St. Chicago, IL 60607."

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The Humanizing Critical Race Theory Project Launch Funded by the Mellon Foundation September 28, 2023 5:00 PM - 7:00 PM Hull House Dr. Adrien Wing is the featured speaker. #humanities #UIC #Chicago
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ALT White background with text "Save the Date. 9.28.23. For the launch of: The Humanizing Critical Race Theory Project. Funded by the Mellon Foundation. Thursday, September, 28, 5-7 p.m., Hull House. Featured Speaker: Dr. Adrien Wing, Associate Dean for International and Comparative Law Programs, University of Iowa." UIC and Mellon Foundation Logos in bottom right corner. Graphic that says "hcrt. Humanizing Critical Race Theory" is in the upper left corner.

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Todayyyyy!
UIC Humanities@UICHumanities6 Sep 2023
Gender & Women's Studies Presents The Clusters: The Racialized Body September 21, 2023 3:30 PM - 4:45 PM Hybrid event Institute and Zoom Register for this event: go.uic.edu/RacializedBody Contact [email protected] with any questions.
The Gender & Women's Studies Presents The Clusters: The Racialized Body flier shows two small round photos of Drs Fair and Bost and the event details text on a background of muddy actually very nice colors including purple, lavender, lilac, light violet, two shades of bue, and light forest green arranged in a chunky, Microsoft Word-looking gradient.

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UIC Humanities@UICHumanities15 Sep 2023
Trans Studies Syllabus for Bullshit Times September 20, 2023 3:00 PM - 4:30 PM Online Register at: go.uic.edu/Sept20Syllabus. Cosponsored by the @UIC_GSC and UIC Institute for the Humanities' Queer and Trans Studies Working Group. #humanities
On a pink background with central framed images of roses and text "Queer & Trans Youth you are loved" is the event information: "Trans Studies Syllabus for Bullshit Times. September 20, 2023. 3:00PM to 4:30PM. Zoom Event. Register for the event here: https://go.uic.edu/Sept20Syllabus. Join us in conversation with Toby Beauchamp, Sawyer K. Kemp, Ava L.J. Kim, Damian Vergara Bracamontes, and Mimi Thi Nguyen about the work put into creating this syllabus, the institutional history of trans studies at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, and our current political moment. Attendees are welcome to examine the syllabus and join our speakers in talking about how to pedagogically include some of the suggested readings in their own courses/curriculum. The syllabus can be accessed at https://www.radicalhistoryreview.org/abusablepast/trans-studies-syllabus-for-bullshit-times/."

ALT On a pink background with central framed images of roses and text "Queer & Trans Youth you are loved" is the event information: "Trans Studies Syllabus for Bullshit Times. September 20, 2023. 3:00PM to 4:30PM. Zoom Event. Register for the event here: https://go.uic.edu/Sept20Syllabus. Join us in conversation with Toby Beauchamp, Sawyer K. Kemp, Ava L.J. Kim, Damian Vergara Bracamontes, and Mimi Thi Nguyen about the work put into creating this syllabus, the institutional history of trans studies at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, and our current political moment. Attendees are welcome to examine the syllabus and join our speakers in talking about how to pedagogically include some of the suggested readings in their own courses/curriculum. The syllabus can be accessed at https://www.radicalhistoryreview.org/abusablepast/trans-studies-syllabus-for-bullshit-times/."

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